Free People of Color: Inside the African American Community

by James Oliver Horton and HORTON JAMES OLIVER

Book Overview

Free People of Color is a path-breaking historical inquiry into the forces that unified and divided free African Americans in the pre-Civil War North, as they dealt with human issues vastly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560982039
• ISBN13: 9781560982036
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Smithsonian Books (DC)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Archival research pertaining to free people of color.

Horton's research should be included in the library of any person truly desirous of understanding the complexity of racial relations and racism in America. Horton provides documentable information about "Free Blacks" in the 18th and 19th centuries. His research dicusses people, places and things done by free blacks to equalize their political, social and economic presence and the presence of their enslaved "sisters and brothers". The statistics are astounding.